Summit Urges Global Response to Malaria Resurgence

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has invested billions of dollars into tackling malaria. It has paid off. Deaths from the disease fell by more than 60 percent between 2000 and 2015, meaning 7 million lives were saved. In 2016, however, that trend was reversed. There were more than 216 million reported cases in 91 countries — an increase of 5 million from the previous year. On the sidelines of this week's London Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Gates told delegates,...

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